Sr Developer SAP

About Us

Freeman is a global leader in events, on a mission to redefine live for a new era. With a data-driven approach and the industry’ largest network of experts, Freeman’s insights shape exhibitions, exhibits, and events that drive audiences to action. The integrated full-service solutions leverage a 97-year legacy in event management as well as new technologies to deliver moments that matter.

The Senior Developer SAP ABAP will be responsible for executing activities in all aspects of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). The Senior Developer SAP ABAP will work on new projects as well as supporting existing applications and be expected to communicate status to stakeholders. The Senior Developer SAP ABAP is expected to influence, persuade, and lead other team members and stakeholders to achieve goals and objectives.

This position will support our IT team. It is eligible to work a hybrid schedule, generally requiring work in-office and/or show-site 2-3 days per week. The ideal candidate will be located in Dallas, TX.

• Collaborate with the Functional Business Analyst and other business stakeholders to elicit and define assigned requirements.
• Elicit detailed requirements in form of user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Captures non-functional system requirements (e.g., supported browsers, security, system performance expectations, etc.).
• Produce deliverables as needed: (e.g., software requirements documents, use cases, use case diagrams, wireframes, workflow diagrams, process diagrams, and detailed user stories).
• Coordinate with Quality Assurance (QA) and the development team to ensure assigned requirements are understood.
• Attend demos and review developed requirements for accuracy.
• Participate in required testing/validation of system fixes, which may include creating the actual test cases or reviewing test cases created by QA.
• Support User Acceptance Testing.

• Plan, design and implement information systems. Perform encoding, testing, debugging and installation activities as necessary.
• Work with organizational end users to clarify current operating procedures.
• Provide functional and technical support for assigned applications, including integration, configuration, maintenance, enhancements, report development, quality assurance, system upgrades, and other activities as required.
• Log and track defect and development requests including message handling and dispatching, resolution tracking, and problem escalation.
• Analyze defects and triage accordingly.
• Work with the BA, QA and development teams as necessary to facilitate defect resolution.
• Assist other teams and business units in supporting ongoing data archival, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning and testing.
• Maintain update-to-date functional and configuration knowledge.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Ensure that testing activities allow applications to meet business requirements and identify existing or potential issues.
• Create and maintain testing deliverables based on user requirements and technical specifications.
• Tests software in accordance with established quality standards prior to implementation to ensure proper operation and freedom from critical and high defects.
• Analyze test results in order to report any defects, bugs, errors or configuration issues.
• Plan and execute integration, user acceptance and regression testing.
• Communicate testing progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders.
• Assist in process improvements.
• Cultivate and disseminate knowledge of quality assurance best practices.
• Provide significant input to system specifications and design.
• Develop detailed knowledge/expertise in applications assigned. Will analyze system integration impacts and define integration requirements.
• Collaborate with developers to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Relies on knowledge and professional discretion to achieve goals. May guide day to day activities of others. Significant ingenuity and flexibility is expected.
• Looks for opportunities…